Manor Farmhouse

SE 77 NE 2/24

HABTON VILLAGE STREET (east side, off) Great Habton Manor Farmhouse

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Farmhouse; now 2 farmhouses. c1800, incorporating an C18 house; early C19 extension and alteration; further alteration in C20. C18 house of red brick in English garden wall bond; later house of pink-cream brick in Flemish bond to front; extension and part of rear wing in English garden wall bond; part of wing in dressed stone; slate roofs and brick stacks. Central-stairhall plan, one room deep, with earlier house to right; rear service wing with parallel range added later adapted to second house. Main front: 3-storey, 3-window front with 2-storey, single-window front to right. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels with patterned overlight, approached by flight of stone steps and beneath cornice porch. 12-pane sash over door. Other ground and first-floor windows are 16-pane sashes. Second floor has unequal 9-pane sash flanked by unequal 12-pane sashes. All windows have painted stone sills and painted wedge lintels. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End stacks. Earlier front to right has 16-pane sashes to ground and first floors, to right of later enlarged entrance. Coped gable and shaped kneeler to right. Central stack. Left return: 2-storey, 2-window front to left. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels with divided overlight to right of 16- pane sash with painted stone sill; 2 similar windows to first floor. Painted wedge lintels to all openings. Interior of main house: ground-floor doors of 6 raised and fielded panels in reeded architraves with paterae. Round arched openings with moulded imposts to rear of ground-floor hall and first-floor landing. First-floor room to left has reeded fireplace surrounded with paterae. Second-floor rooms to front have basket grates. Interior of earlier house: plank and muntin partitions survive on the first floor.

Listing NGR: SE7598376339